Motorola C156

This low-end model with a colour screen came to replace a bestseller C350. Differs in the absence of a miniUSB connector that fact prevents from using the device as a GPRS-modem. All the other characteristics are comparable. Technically similar to C155 with a bit changed design.

• Class: low-end
• Position in the line: above Motorola C115
• Rival phones: Siemens A65, Alcatel 332
• Test based description

• General features
  • Announced in September 2004, in the market since October 2004
  • GSM 900/1800
  • High contrast graphical display with the resolution of 96x65 pixels, 4096 colors (STN), shows up to 3 text lines with 16 characters in each + service line and one more design line
  • Battery type Li-Ion 920 mAh
  • Battery life:
  • standby mode up to 200 hours
  • talk mode up to 3.5 hours
  • J2ME MIDP 1.0
  • Colours - steel grey
  • Weight: 81 grams
  • Dimensions: 98 x 45 x 21 mm
  • Volume 72 cc

   

• Memory
  • Phone book, up to 100 numbers with one number for a name in the internal memory
  • Memory for 20 SMS

 

• Call management, ring tones, voice functions
  • 16 tones polyphonic call alert, up to 128 instrument
  • 35 tones and call melodies, a possibility to create own call melodies (up to 32). All the melodies are polyphonic
  • Musical editor MotoMixer (creating polyphonic melodies)
  • A possibility to load iMelody or MIDI melodies
  • Vibrating alert
  • Different ways of vibracall working, schemes

 

• SMS

• EMS (ver. 5.0)
• Predictive text input iTap
• SMS Chat
• Peer-to-peer Chat

 

• Connectivity
  • GPRS (4+1)
  • WAP 1.2.1

   

• Organizer and extras
  • Themes (screensavers, wall-papers and ring tones, these all are combined under the name of a theme), a possibility load new themes
  • A possibility to create own menu tags - MyMenu
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Date, time, alarm-clock
  • Games

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published — 15 January 2005

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